Shipping-case-cover fastener.



EATEHTEB SEPT. E 15566 3. BRAUER. SHIPPING CASE SOVEB, FASTENEE, APPLICATION FILED MAR.11,1908.

M1 1 EPRUE BY I I 7 zen of the United States, residing at Menasha,- '1n the county of Winnebago and case cover fastener, and is particularly-adapt- UNITED STATEPATENT Applicationfiled March 11, 1908. Serial na-ezaaza-v- T 'aZZ wh0m it niay concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN BRAUER,

State 0f 1 i i of L etters Patent;

iatented was.

securing the wire of tliefastener to a shipping" a citicase,

i said'wire in packing pails one within; the

and also, the manner of disposing of other into dozen (more or less) packages for Wi on in, h i ted a new and useful "shipment from the manufactory where the Shipping-Qase-Cover Fastener, of which the following isaspecification.

My invention relates to a wire shipping ed for use upon pails formed of wood turned into a round form for p'ackin cases, such as pails in which. tobacco, can and confeced from the tionery of various kinds are ship wholesaler to the retailer, but is applicable also to pails made of veneer and fiber, and also to rectangular boxes formed of wood which it the wholesaler of such to the wholesale grocers lessened difficulty in V:nailing; fifth, one that can be applied in such Patent of-the United vFatent Office November 25, 1907, Serial No.

may be desired to use for shipping packages,

and-the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a fastening device one that iseasy to make-and apply second, one that is of low' cost, third, in the case of pails,-one that can be applied to. them before they are packed one within the other in packages of a dozen at the manufactory where made, and from whence they are shipped to ware for distribution who use them for that is adapted shipping cases; fourth, one

foruse with covers formed of hard woods,

such as maple, bir'ch,;&c, by reason of the *using such covers which have heretofore been" secured to the pail by a manner that it cannot be removed, without the fastening device indicating by its mutilation, the probability of the contents of the packer and shipfper of the any loss takes place in transit, it will be apparent to thereeeiver and can be at once and correctly located forsuch use, and l The present invention is an improvement on one for a like pur ose for which Letters tates were filed in the 403,614, and it is shown drawing, inwhich I I Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective of-apail having acover, with my improved fastening device applied to the pail andits cover, the device upon the to, of the cover being identical with one modi 'cation of a fastening shown in the application above referred to.

in the accompanying Fig. Qis an elevation in perspective ofa pail without a cover, and showing the manner of a pail through bores therein, the staves being in section across said bores.

Similar numerals indicate like partsin the several views. 3 4 c 1, indicates a pail; 2, wire hoops thereon;

3, its bail; 4, its bail1ears;'5, a series of small bores through the pail near its'top, eight in number. These holes are'to f'be arranged in pairs, two pairs for each wire, the pairs may be spaced around the pail at nearly equal distances, but those of each pair need be but a fraction of an'inch apart. These bores are to' receive.

the ends 6 and main body of the wire, 7 of the wire 8. For

the fasteners I prefer to useabout 'No. 15

soft wire for ordinary candy and tobacco pails which is cut into,suitab'le lengths and one end may have the right angled bends 9 and 10 made. upon it andforming a'hook,

before the wire isinsertedinto the bores 5,

the other end not being made until afterthe insertion; of the wire from the inside of the pail through one hole of a pair, the wire then being bent around the outside of the pail and its free end inserted through oneYof an adjoining pairof holes, when the bends 9 and 10 are to be made in that end of' the wire. The wire is then to be pulled by its slack 1 1, and the ends 6 inserted into the other one of'said pairs of holes, the wire between the bends 9 and 10 being struck -with a hammer as the wire is pulled and embedded into the body of the staves 12 of the pail, flush with their inner surface. The wire is then to be pulled up tightly by its slack and bent over the top edge of the pail, as is shown on the front side of the pail .in Fig.2, and then bent downward into the pail as is shown upon the rear inside of the pail in said fi ure. The two wires 8 being insertedand tne portion between the bends 9 and 10 being embedded in the wall of the pail, the slack being bent down 11p0n.-th6; fiI1Sld6"O theipail, the pails are in" a conditior1',,jforpacking one "within the other with-the'i fast'enin wires inside of them readvlfo'r lfijendinno way interfering said bends upon with their being packed. It may be noted that the hooks formed by the bends 9 and 10, may be outside instead of inside of the semicircle of wire, and not depart from the intent of the invention. The pail covers 13, are usually tied or racked up in one dozen lots for shipment with the'pails. After the arrival of the pails and covers at the place of use, they are to be unpacked and the slack .11 of the wire bent outward over the pail .top, when the pails can be filled with the goods desired up even with. the pail top. The 'cover being then placed in position, the slack 11 of the two wires of the fastener are brought together and twisted around each other by means of a special tool in the opening 14 of the twist 15 in Fig. 1, until the wires are tightened over the cover to the necessary degree.

For opening the packet, the same special tool may be used in the opening 14 andthe wires untwisted,. or they may be out with a pair of tinners snips,'but they cannot-be again twisted together over the cover without their mutilation in so doing being observable.

It may be substantia bservcd that the bores 5 are of the same diameter as that of the wires, so that no difference in their size is a parent, and they being so nearthe top of t e pail they do not detract from its value as a pail for later uses, and the bores being even but the minor fraction of an inch a art for the pairs, no amount of strain likely to be given the fasteners will separate them from the pail.

Having described claim and desire to ent, is,-

1. In a fastener for a my invention, what secure by Letters Patpail or other-shipping case cover, comprising two wires, each of which titties. extends from the inner to the outer side of said shipping case near its upper edge and forms anouter loop in the slack of each wire, which two loops are bent upward over the cover and toward its'center where they are twisted together four bores through said shipping case wall near its upper edge for each of said two wires, arranged in pairs spaced apart, each end of the wire of each of said loops passing from the outer to the inner side of said case through one bore of each pair, thence being bent at a nearly right angle toward the-other bore of the pair, thence at a nearly right angle and entering the-other bore of said pair, the Wire between said two bends upon each end of the wires being driven into the 'wall of the shipping case, flush with its inner surface.

2. As a member of a case, cover fastener, a wire bent into a nearly semicircular form, a hook formed upon each end of the wire, the free end of each hook being spaced apart from the main body of the wire and arranged in a position parallel with said main body, the main body being adapted to pass from the outer .to the inner side of said case through one of a pair of bores therein, and the free end aforesaid being adapted to enter from the inside of the case, the second bore of the pair.

3. A wire ship ing case cover fastener, a hook upon an cm of the wire for preventing it from being pulled through the wall of the case, the wire of which hook incloses three sides of a rectangular space having two slightly rounded corners.

'JOHN BRAUER.

1 Witnesses: 7

O; A. WEsTBERG,

H. A. ZANDER.

pail or other shipping 

